Did Nelson defeat Buonaparte?
COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, Nov. 14, 1798
- Lord Horatio Nelson victorious ?
- Battle of the Nile - Napoleon Bonaparte
The front page has an address from the Grand Jury of Mass: "To the President of rthe Unitred States, with his: "Answer" signed in type: John Adams.
Page 2 has dispatches noting: "The account of the defeat of Buonaparte by the Arabs is not official...Notwithstanding the numerous accounts of Nelson's victory, there are many who yet doubt on the subject. If the news should not prove true, there can be no future reliance on ink and paper."
Another page 2 report: "Constitution Frigate" gives an account of her recent actions.
Four pages, a few small, discrete archival mends, very nice condition.
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